Mission Statement
Culture Colony - Y Wladfa Newydd is a new cultural experience celebrating the diversity of expression and a space for sharing and developing creative ideas.
Culture Colony Y Wladfa Newydd has been designed as both a professional tool for individuals and businesses involved in the creative industries and as an alternative to television for anyone to access cultural content.
Culture Colony - Y Wladfa Newydd is an independent voice and its membership can respond immediately to the cultural issues and concerns of the day.
www.culturecolony.com is a cultural networking web site that contains a large ammount of video content concerning creativity and culture in Wales. If you feel that culturally you are being badly served by television, whether you're an artist or not, this is the place for you.
One of the aims of Culture Colony is to address this problem for the arts and fill the gap that traditional television broadcasters and the print media are, for a number of reasons, unwilling or unable to supply. Culture Colony - Y Wladfa Newydd will provide stimulating, creative content for a world wide audience. This 'channel' on the internet will open the way for more involvement from an arts audience and from arts practitioners through a series of innovative projects aimed at interactivity, involvement and education, enabling Culture Colony - Y Wladfa Newydd to grow and evolve with its membership.
Culture Colony - Y Wladfa Newydd is our cultural front line populated by anyone with an interest in our cultural development and concerned about our creative expression.
Visit us at Creative Unit 08, Aberystwyth Arts Centre. For directions please see the contact us page
Content Providers -
Pixel Foundry
Pixel Foundry is a television production company established in 2001. Specialising in stories originating from Mid Wales we have made programs and series’ for BBC Wales, S4C and ITV 1 Wales. This specialisation on our region has not limited our vision as these stories have taken us from Machynlleth to the Sahara Desert, from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Kansas and from Gladestry to Moscow. For these, our own productions, we have covered stories dealing with Solar Science, Religion, The Royal Family, Life and Death.
We have also made programs for many other production companies in Wales that have covered a wide spectrum of subject matter from the arts to politics and rural affairs - shooting in the UK and world wide.
Funding
Culture Colony - Y Wladfa Newydd is a subscription driven project but it would not have launched without private and public funding initiatives. We would like to acknowledges the generous support it is receiving through the content provided by Pixel Foundry Artists Archive and the development of the Culture Colony - Y Wladfa Newydd web site is supported in part by cyfle i greu chance to create which is managed by Powys County Council’s Arts Development Service in close collaboration with Powys Arts Forum. This project is part funded through the Rural Development Plan for Wales 2007 - 2013 and financed by the European Union and the Welsh Assembly Government.
Stage 2 of the web site development has been part funded by a small grant from the Welsh Assembly Government Single Investment Fund (SIF).
The private funders know who you are and we are eternally greatful for your valuable advice, engaged encouragement and truly generous support.
